Agriculture Reviving In Aceh After Tsunami: Scientists

Fears that the most fertile agricultural land in the Indonesian province of Aceh has been wrecked by seawater that swept inland from the December 26 tsunami are unfounded, scientists say.

But experts say that salt from the tsunami did not penetrate very far into the coastal clay soils where rice is grown, and that irrigation with salt-free water has been found to solve the problem, the British weekly New Scientist says.